Whatcha Sawin' ???

nativewolf · August 18, 2018, 09:00:21 PM

Busysawyer, who is your veneer destined for if you don't mind me asking? I'm always looking for more veneer buyers.

Busysawyer · August 18, 2018, 09:16:03 PM

Nativewolf, I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Lol. Just kidding, I'm small potatoes. For how few logs I get I feel lucky they even deal with me. They must be doing well on it though because a lot of times they will come out and look at timber with me and tell me what they will pay me before I buy the trees. I really like this because being new I want to give a fair price to the seller and I don't know which trees are going to make that high dollar. I'm learning but I've been surprised a few times and had to go back and throw some more money to the seller to keep a clear conscience. PM sent.

alan gage · August 18, 2018, 10:01:49 PM

Been cutting up cottonwood for pallets so I can have someplace to stack the nicer stuff:

I also cut up some cottonwood for beams and braces for my drying shed lean-to and some knotty spruce to close off the north end:

I have had a chance to cut some basswood and willow (I think) logs into lumber. Nice change of pace and good practice logs. I'm learning a lot. The willow slabs sold right away. The lumber I'll dry:

Also picked up a couple big chunks of Scots Pine - 40" small end. Probably should have let it go the tree dump but I couldn't resist. We just don't see much pine of any variety around here. Almost broke my trailer when they dropped the big piece on the tail. I think my helper might need a bigger chainsaw to split it. I'm sure I'll regret ever seeing it by the time I'm done.

Very much looking forward to getting to all the ash, oak, walnut, and maple I've got laying around.

Alan

Downstream · August 19, 2018, 01:05:07 AM

the maple tree was standing dead in my neighbors yard. Probably dead for a year or more and he dropped it the same day I took the photo so they have been on the ground for less that 24 hrs. I know they were pretty hard to cut into my saw length with my 660 so they may saw hard too. I was hoping for spalting but doesn't really matter since I don't have to pay anything for my logs. Also my usage is for rustic live edge furniture so anything that is unique in color or grain sells better. That is one of the things I like about sawing is looking at the end of the log and trying to picture what the slabs will look like. Then you start slabbing and sometimes a good surprise, but worst case is just "normal" which ain't too bad either.

nativewolf · August 19, 2018, 08:48:54 AM

Quote from: Busysawyer on August 18, 2018, 09:16:03 PM
Nativewolf, I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Lol. Just kidding, I'm small potatoes. For how few logs I get I feel lucky they even deal with me. They must be doing well on it though because a lot of times they will come out and look at timber with me and tell me what they will pay me before I buy the trees. I really like this because being new I want to give a fair price to the seller and I don't know which trees are going to make that high dollar. I'm learning but I've been surprised a few times and had to go back and throw some more money to the seller to keep a clear conscience. PM sent.

I'll give you a ring later today. Frankly I think you're doing fine by the sound of it.

PA_Walnut · August 19, 2018, 09:29:29 AM

Quote from: Busysawyer on August 17, 2018, 10:30:38 PMIt's still sitting there. I need to wrap a chain around it and fish it up and out of there with the skidsteer. I was by myself and thought it would be smarter and safer to wait for the old man to come over tommorow and supervise my fishing attempts.

Been there...EVERY time I put a short log on, its a wrestling match, like this. The best fix that I have found is keeping a nice supply of bourbon in my mill shed!!;D

PA_Walnut · August 19, 2018, 09:37:59 AM

Quote from: YellowHammer on August 18, 2018, 07:50:46 AMStack bow, where if you sight down the top of a stack of stickered wood, you will generally see a slight upward curve in the middle of the stack in the upper layers. The ends are low, the middle is slightly higher, the other end is low. It's a very smooth, gentle upward and downward curve on air drying stacks of lumber. It is something I see all the time if I look in other people's stacks of stickers wood, and if not corrected will cause an aggravating bow in dried wood in the upper layers. When stickered properly, the weight of the wood on upper layers provide a downward force to the layers beneath to press the lower stacks flatter. The point loads of the stickers provide downward or "flattening" force, and are are divided by the number of stickers. Since the weight of the boards is constant, the more stickers you have, the less weight is applied at each point load or sticker. Once the individual sticker loads are decreased to a certain level, at some point, in some woods, it does not actually provide enough force to keep the boards flat. This is similar to the old carnival bed of nails trick, where if enough nails are,used, the point loads at each nail are not enough to pierce the skin so a guy can lay on the bed of nails without bleeding.

*DanG you with your science and logic!

:D It makes me feel like a slacker.

!

Makes TOTAL sense though. Sawed oak pallet material yesterday and instructed my pallet-assembly crew (wife) to do 16" centers.
I finally have enough rotation of my air'o-flow stickers to do so.

DeepWoods · August 19, 2018, 06:24:01 PM

My neighbor is adding on to his cabin, so he needed to take down a white birch before the construction began. He ended up with two nice logs about 20 inches average. We spent yesterday milling them into 2 inch slabs. He wants stair treads for some of it for his studio and wants a dining room table from the best slabs when they are dry. We hit metal in the butt log, nails, as best I could tell. Lee wanted me to cut that log in half, but there wasn't enough damage to the bands so I just kept changing them with each pass till we were in good wood again. It was worth a few dull bands to get the slabs. This has been some of the nicest wood i have seen so far. I mostly cut red pine so this was a nice change. Here is the results, we got about 257 bd ft from the two logs

Magicman · August 19, 2018, 06:52:44 PM

That Burch is some purdy stuff.

@alan gage It will be fun to watch you and your helper tackle that Pine monster.

Will we ever learn?? No. ;D

WDH · August 19, 2018, 07:37:31 PM

Hopeless ;D.

Lawg Dawg · August 19, 2018, 10:09:59 PM

PAW you need to keep that stuff on the TOP SHELF, looks likes its been rolling around in some green.....something?

BTW, I been sawin pine boards ;D, nothing worth taking a picture of, but it pays the bills! 8)

PA_Walnut · August 20, 2018, 07:45:35 AM

Quote from: Lawg Dawg on August 19, 2018, 10:09:59 PMPAW you need to keep that stuff on the TOP SHELF, looks likes its been rolling around in some green.....something?

!! :D It was riding in the back of my RTV and got tangled-up with some green AnchorSeal. Such is the life of lumbermen! ;D

bwstout · August 20, 2018, 10:24:33 AM

Saw some SYP yesterday on my Shade Tree Mill ;D

Just Right · August 20, 2018, 12:10:41 PM

They were cutting this Maple down at work on Saturday. So I took the time to go relieve them of such an ugly tree. I am planning on cutting some turning blanks and try to get some small slabs off that bottom cut. A lil help in pricing them would be greatly appreciated as Burls isn't my specialty at all. Thanks.

Magicman · August 20, 2018, 03:42:13 PM

With all of those bumps that poor tree had to be hurting. I am of no help with pricing but I will be interested to see what is inside.

Busysawyer · August 20, 2018, 09:09:25 PM

Pa walnut, I don't drink often but I do have a few sips from time to time.
Slabbing more walnut again today. Also bought a few more nice walnut trees to cut for future slab supply. Started advertising on fb and cl and my phone has been blowing up.

YellowHammer · August 20, 2018, 09:12:49 PM

Those are nice looking.

Magicman · August 20, 2018, 09:30:16 PM

Love those bookmatches.

Busysawyer · August 20, 2018, 09:44:22 PM

Yh , like I tell my customers, God made them beautiful I just open them up so we can all see it.
Mm
Those first two never made it to the sticker pile. I posted the photos to our fb business page and someone grabbed them up quick.

Magicman · August 20, 2018, 10:16:54 PM

As they should. It's good to see a quick turnover of your capital $$$.

Crossroads · August 21, 2018, 01:20:20 AM

Got the 5th wheel moved to Idaho today, had time to walk some of the property and pick out a few trees that will come down soon. Unfortunately, it will be a couple weeks before I get my mill over here to start milling the lumber for the cabin.